Role of Perceived Family Resilience, Meaning in Life, and Differentiation in Making a Distinction Between Smoker and non-Smoker Students in Ardabil University of Medical Sciences

Background: the psychological and family factors play a critical important role in the emergenceoccurrence or prevention of addictive behaviors.objective: the aim of the study was to determine the role of family resilience, meaning in life, and differentiation in making a distinction between smokering and non-smokering students inof ardabil university of medical sciences, iran.methods: this case-control study was done on students of ardabil university of medical sciences, iran, in the academic year 2019. among this population, 95 smoker and 95 non-smoker students were selected as the research sample using the available sampling method. regarding the research instruments,this research is a case-control study. the statistical population of the present study was students of ardabil university of medical sciences in the academic year 2019, from which 80 smokers and 80 non-smokers were selected as the research sample using the available sampling method. in this study, family resilience, meaning in life, and differentiation questionnaires were used to collect data. data were analyzed in spss software (version 21) using the for data analysis, discriminant analysis method was used with spss.21 software.results: results showed that, showed that 66% of the variance of family resilience, meaning in life, and differentiation for the only discriminant function was explained by the difference between the two groups of smokers and non-smokers.conclusions: considering the high level average oof family resilience, meaning in life, and differentiation in non-smokering students, it can be we can concluded that these traits perform family resilience, meaning in life, and differentiation have a a significant role in distinguishing between smokering and non-smokering university students.